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[Q] Getting Open Etna on the LG GW620 on a Mac

Hello everybody,
I know, there is a GIANT Thread on this but even with the search I cannot find my Error-signs etc. so I have to open another one.
To begin I should say, that I am workin' on a Mac, but I got all the utilities, that I need. (I think) To sum up:
The latest SDK, including fastboot and the upgrades,
the System.img and
boot.img from the Openetna-site.
And I got the V10H_00.kdz and I this would be it
Now to my problem: I tried to update my phone like in the tutorials on the Openetna-site: openetna.com/openetna/about/
I never had a Problem to get into the Fastbootmode, it shows the usual stuff. The only strange thing is that the serialnumber is "UNKNOWN"
The first -w Step to delete the data is no problem and is displayed on the phone but then everything I try is unsuccesful:
flashall results to: neither -p product specified nor ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT set
devices: ???????????? Fastboot
I think that these are my mainproblems but some further information.
When I try to do as in the tutorial, like I did the first time of many many many times (fastboot flash boot boot.img & fastboot flash system system.img [yes they are in the same directory with those exact names] fastboot just shows me: error: cannot load 'boot.img' and error: cannot load 'system.img'
And sometimes in between, even when I tried it on my roommates PC I get "Waiting for device" I think this comes with every other command than those I just described...
great, don't you think? Do you have any ideas, that could help? My Phone doenst work any more, and I really need it... It appeared so easy in the lots of videos... But it wasn't...
Please Help
Thanks a lot,
Julien

Something stupid...
Hey Guys and Gals again...
Isn't it ironic, that the minute after I posted this Thread I realize how stupid I was? I symply forgot to "cd" my terminal. Here is how it should look like...
Julien-Blues-MacBook:~ julienbluehirte$ /Users/julienbluehirte/Desktop/SDK/tools/fastboot flash boot /Users/julienbluehirte/Desktop/SDK/tools/boot.img
sending 'boot' (2754 KB)... OKAY
writing 'boot'... OKAY
Julien-Blues-MacBook:~ julienbluehirte$ /Users/julienbluehirte/Desktop/SDK/tools/fastboot flash system /Users/julienbluehirte/Desktop/SDK/tools/system.img
sending 'system' (98929 KB)... OKAY
writing 'system'... OKAY
Julien-Blues-MacBook:~ julienbluehirte$
STUUUUUUUUPID AND SILLY ME...
I'm sorry to maybe have stolen your time, Have a nice day
Julien

[Q][Kernel][i9023] Help : flashing kernel killed my phone

Hello everybody,
Before telling you about my issue, i should mention that i am a complete newbie regarding flashing kernels. This was my first try, and it didn't work out too well.
I needed to test the USB OTG/Host Functionality for a project at work, and i read that it was possible to enable it on the Nexus S by flashing a custom kernel (kernel_usbhost_build5_icsnexuss from sztupy). It's probably worth mentioning that prior to this i updated the phone to Android 4.0.3.
So i started this morning by rooting it, unlocking the bootloader and installing CWM.
At that point i realized that the recovery mode wasn't accessible : the graphics of the droid with an open belly appears for half a second, and then it gives me the black screen treatment for about a minute before rebooting.
However since there are other ways to flash kernels, i figured i could do without recovery so i didn't look more into it.
I then flashed the kernel using fastboot with this command :
Code:
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash:raw boot H:\data\Downloads\kernel_usbhost_build5_icsnexuss\kernel\zImage
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 3446784 bytes
sending 'boot' (3366 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.422s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.500s]
finished. total time: 0.922s
From the trace i figured that all went well, but when i reboot it stays blocked on the splash screen with the Google logo. Since then i tried flashing several other kernels, without any success. Also tried to flash an update.zip (both ICS and GB) over fastboot but i get this error :
Code:
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot update H:\data\Downloads\upd
ate.zip
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'
error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt
So to sum it up i now only have access to the bootloader, without recovery mode.
Before you all jump on me, i know what i did is bad habits (i should have tested the kernel before flashing it), i did it in a hurry without checking i had all sufficient knowledge, and to be honest i would probably have been more careful if was doing it on my personal device.
Truth is now i'm really desperate because i turned my company issued phone into a brick and don't have the slightest idea what to do about it...
Is there any guru out there who knows how i could get out of this ?
Thanks a lot !

Download clockworkmod recovery and use fastboot to flash it.
Fastboot flash recovery yourfilename.img
Enter recovery and mounts and storage and mount USB storage
Transfer the kernel you want to your SD card. The one you flashes isn't a kernel I'm almost sure.
Try a different one.
Then transfer a rom to your SD card.
Factory reset/full wipe, then go to mounts and storage and format everything except your sdcard.
DO NOT FORMAT YOUR SD CARD!!!
Once that is done go to install zip from sdcard and flash the rom and then the kernel and reboot. Should be fine then. Keep me posted.

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Election Day said:
The image you need would be this ClockworkMod img. Save it somewhere, cd to the sdk/platform-tools/ directory and then do:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery /path/to/saved/file/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-crespo.img
Just drag and drop the file in your terminal, after typing the space after "recovery".
Furthermore, what nodstuff said.
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Ha ha oops! Forgot that part!
I usually just cd to the one where I have recovery saved!

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Thanks a lot for answering so quickly !
I'll give it a try on Monday, let you know how it goes.

Election Day said:
Yes, you can also do that, of course. In that case you'd have to provide the full path for fastboot. Or maybe you don't have to on Windows? I don't really use that operating system to be honest.
In that case it would be something like:
Code:
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools\fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-crespo.img
Looking at OP's quotes that is probably the most logical way in this case, you're right.
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No I just cd to downloads (where recovery file would be) in terminal, type: fastboot flash recovery xxxxxx img
And that's it.
I set the path to fast boot and adb in environmental variables in device manager.
Maybe that's why.

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Just tried out your tips, worked like a charm !
However I had to wipe everything twice before it would let me update to 4.0.3, I would get this weird error :
file_getprop: failed to stat "/system/build.prop": No such file or directory
Anyway now I'm back on ICS and, following your advice, i found another kernel to flash : Matr1x. No problem with this one, now I can test USB OTG.
Thanks again, you guys rule !

Soft Brick

So I managed to successfully soft brick my one xl with rogers after I tried the Debranding method explained by JSLEnterprises, while we wait for a CWM recovery that might help me I need some help getting my phone working. So far fastboot is useless (on a mac) when I try to fastboot update to JSLEnterprises's rogers ruu.zip I get all this
Whoops: didn't find expected signature
read_central_directory_entry failed
error: failed to access zipdata in '??K?WY-??/?>?*{??
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I have also tried extracting the system.img boot_signed.img and recovery (just for kicks) and tried flashing those individually. The system.img just wouldn't flash,
sending 'system' (1048572 KB)... FAILED (remote: data length is too large)
boot and recovery send and write just fine.
I tried extracting the contents of my zip with the only program I could find that could open said zip, (all others would say it was invalid) and then rezipped it, when I try to flash that I get it telling me that no boot.img was found, thats fair cuz its named boot_signed, I open the zip, rename all the *_signed.img to just *.img and it goes fine with the exeptions that no .sig files are there and system.img is too large.
Whenever I go to my recovery and try to factory reset, I get errors at first about how it cant mount /data/data/recovery/log, but the factory reset gives me
Formatting /data
cant't mount /data
and then cant' mount all sorts of locations in the /cache
then formatting /cache
wipe complete
trying to apply and update from either internal, external or cache seems to fail and make my phone reboot
I have also tried the windows at&t ruu, every one out there the 1.52, 1.68 even 1.44 but no luck. I did JSLEnterprises trick of replacing rom.zip with the rogers.zip but I get error 155 and my phone gets stuck at a black screen with chrome htc letters until i reboot it. Is there anything else you guys could suggest that would help since I contacted the fellow who is working on a CWM port and he informed me that mounting the "sdcard" wont be possible right away.
Somebody help!

[Q] TF300T TWRP bootloop. Return to stock?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I recently flashed the new TRWP using fastboot. Went fine. I then tried to wipe and flash the newest version of KatKiss. I thought it also went fine but after reboot, it bootloops TWRP. I can tell the tablet to boot Android, but it just hangs. Then when I try to boot back into TWRP, it starts the bootloop all over again. Here is what it's doing during bootloop.
Running OpenRecoveryScript
E:Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer.
E:Unable to mount '/data'
E:Unable to recreate /data/media folder.
Updating partition details...
E:Unable to mount '/data'
...done
E:Unable to mount storage.
E:Unable to mount /data/media during GUI startup.
Full SELinux support is present.
E:Unable to mount /data/media/TWRP/.twrps when trying to read settings file.
Processing AOSP recovery commands...
E:Unable to mount '/data'
-- Wiping DATA Partition...
Formatting Cache using make_ext4fs function.
After about 1 minute it will follow with...
E:Unable to mount '/data'
-- Data Partition Wipe Complete!
Done processing script file
It will then reboot within 3 seconds after displaying the last line, and begin it all over again.
I'm hoping someone can tell me what options I have at this point. Would I be able to return to stock using fastboot and ASUS's blob from their website? Again, any help is greatly appreciated!

Solved.
I had already figured on buying a new tablet regardless, so I figured I'd go ahead and try to recover using fastboot. It did work. I noticed this post had a few views, and on the chance there were other people having the same issue, I'll post how I did it. I recommend using Windows 7 for this.
Download the appropriate firmware from ASUS's website. (WW, US, CN, JP etc...) Unzip the file twice until you have the META-INF folder and blob file. I placed both of these into a folder named "TF300t" directly on the C drive.
Install your device drivers, I used the Google SDK drivers.
Boot into fastboot.
Run these commands...
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase cache
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\TF300t\blob (Again, this is where I saved my blob file.)
You should see something along these lines, when flashing your system...
C:\>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\TF300t\blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.665s]
sending 'system' (800931 KB)...
OKAY [142.128s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [155.462s]
finished. total time: 299.255s
When it's finished, run the last command...
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
From this point, you should be booted back into stock.

Recreate the partition
anim0sity said:
I had already figured on buying a new tablet regardless, so I figured I'd go ahead and try to recover using fastboot. It did work. I noticed this post had a few views, and on the chance there were other people having the same issue, I'll post how I did it. I recommend using Windows 7 for this.
Download the appropriate firmware from ASUS's website. (WW, US, CN, JP etc...) Unzip the file twice until you have the META-INF folder and blob file. I placed both of these into a folder named "TF300t" directly on the C drive.
Install your device drivers, I used the Google SDK drivers.
Boot into fastboot.
Run these commands...
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase cache
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\TF300t\blob (Again, this is where I saved my blob file.)
You should see something along these lines, when flashing your system...
C:\>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\TF300t\blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.665s]
sending 'system' (800931 KB)...
OKAY [142.128s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [155.462s]
finished. total time: 299.255s
When it's finished, run the last command...
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
From this point, you should be booted back into stock.
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anim0sity
What happened if you dont have the blob???
I had a tab, i complete erase all the partition and i cannot install any app, always had error 963
How i can recreate all the partition of my tablet?
It running android 5 lollipop
Regards,

Shouldn't be any reason you don't have the blob file. You can download it straight from ASUS's website. When you download it, it comes in a zip file. You have to extract it twice. So unzip the original zip file downloaded, then unzip the file you get from unzipping the original. From there, you should have the blob file needed to flash your tablet back to stock using fast boot / sdk tools.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using XDA Free mobile app

anim0sity said:
Shouldn't be any reason you don't have the blob file. You can download it straight from ASUS's website. When you download it, it comes in a zip file. You have to extract it twice. So unzip the original zip file downloaded, then unzip the file you get from unzipping the original. From there, you should have the blob file needed to flash your tablet back to stock using fast boot / sdk tools.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using XDA Free mobile app
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Hi Anim0sity
I downloaded the package and starting doit the process
H:\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot devices
015d15b4fc481208 fastboot
H:\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot erase system
_
Now is hanging here what i can do it??
Thanks

successful
Hi
After many tries and plug the usb cable in the back of my tower i successful install the firmware
Regards,

HI to rstore to stock using twrp, is it as simple as downloading the file to the tablet, unziping once then flashing the resulting file, or is it a bit more difficult than that?

[Completed] Unlock forgotten pattern.

A few years ago, my bro has set a pattern lock for his old "G-Tide E66", then the phone was left abandoned. Now, I need this phone for some reason.
Info:
1- USB Debugging disabled.
2-Volume Up/Down corrupted.
3-Wifi / Mobile data are turned off.
Details:
- I get to the pattern screen.
-Andriod: Chocolate II
-Drop down menu, not working from the lock screen.
- No shareit to try open Wifi glitch.
Trials:
1-I tried looking for a pinhole to reset the phone ( Couldn't find where it is.)
2- Using Andriod Debug Bridge (ADB):
adb reboot recovery ( I got No command, Fixed it by holding the power button. then stuck in the recovery with corrupted volume down, I thought of triggering the key event from adb)
adb shell input keyevent 25 (25 = VOLUME_DOWN) ( I got this error: - exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) nRet(-1) - Not sure about solution so I thought of another method.)
3-Using FastBoot:
adb reboot bootloader ( the phone reboots in recovery mode)
fastboot devices ( the device shows)
fastboot -w ( Loading for about 9 hours in "erasing 'user data'...." , I got this error: "FAILED TO read user data too many links" , I saw suggestions about rebooting the device, PC connecting to another socket ( In my case I have 5 , 2 of which are SS v3) triple failure.)
Other manual erases like:
fastboot erase cache (fail too).
4- Using Android Multi Tools v1.02b FAISAL JEE from SE-Thiland.
Reset Face/PIN Lock : rm failed for /data/system/password.key, Permission denied
Reset Face/Gesture Lock: rm failed for /data/system/gesture.key, Permission denied
Reset GMail:
rm failed for /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db-shm, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db-wal, Permission denied
Wipe Data/cache:
erasing 'cache' (forever.)
Wipe Data:
Wiping /data
Error opendir'ing /data 'Permission denied'
Done wiping /data
5- Looking for G-Tide reset code , I failed too ( Found None and I got Not Emergency number pop up).
6- Using the wisdom " When you are stuck , start to F***" , I started typing random ****, eventually failed too.
7- Calling 999 and trying to unlock fails.
8- Rooting using superSU
I tried this command not sure if correct:
adb install <PATH of SuperSU.apk>
"com.noshufou.android.su.apk"
I got success and not sure what to do next.
9- Recovery img:
fastboot flash recovery < RECVERY IMG>
I used this
cm-13.0-20160901-NIGHTLY-d851-recovery.img
Result:
sending 'recovery' (11648 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.373s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote:
partition 'recovery' not support flash)
finished. total time: 0.392s
10- MirrorGO software.
11- Google Android Manager , apparently no internet so no luck too.
12- <I didn't try this> Installing a ROM
not really sure if that will work or screw everything, any ideas and how to install ?
is it ?
adb install <PATH of ROM.zip>
NOTE: I know the phone is dirt cheap , but I have to unlock it whatever the hell I do.

XDA Visitor said:
A few years ago, my bro has set a pattern lock for his old "G-Tide E66", then the phone was left abandoned. Now, I need this phone for some reason.
Info:
1- USB Debugging disabled.
2-Volume Up/Down corrupted.
3-Wifi / Mobile data are turned off.
Details:
- I get to the pattern screen.
-Andriod: Chocolate II
-Drop down menu, not working from the lock screen.
- No shareit to try open Wifi glitch.
Trials:
1-I tried looking for a pinhole to reset the phone ( Couldn't find where it is.)
2- Using Andriod Debug Bridge (ADB):
adb reboot recovery ( I got No command, Fixed it by holding the power button. then stuck in the recovery with corrupted volume down, I thought of triggering the key event from adb)
adb shell input keyevent 25 (25 = VOLUME_DOWN) ( I got this error: - exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) nRet(-1) - Not sure about solution so I thought of another method.)
3-Using FastBoot:
adb reboot bootloader ( the phone reboots in recovery mode)
fastboot devices ( the device shows)
fastboot -w ( Loading for about 9 hours in "erasing 'user data'...." , I got this error: "FAILED TO read user data too many links" , I saw suggestions about rebooting the device, PC connecting to another socket ( In my case I have 5 , 2 of which are SS v3) triple failure.)
Other manual erases like:
fastboot erase cache (fail too).
4- Using Android Multi Tools v1.02b FAISAL JEE from SE-Thiland.
Reset Face/PIN Lock : rm failed for /data/system/password.key, Permission denied
Reset Face/Gesture Lock: rm failed for /data/system/gesture.key, Permission denied
Reset GMail:
rm failed for /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db-shm, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db-wal, Permission denied
Wipe Data/cache:
erasing 'cache' (forever.)
Wipe Data:
Wiping /data
Error opendir'ing /data 'Permission denied'
Done wiping /data
5- Looking for G-Tide reset code , I failed too ( Found None and I got Not Emergency number pop up).
6- Using the wisdom " When you are stuck , start to F***" , I started typing random ****, eventually failed too.
7- Calling 999 and trying to unlock fails.
8- Rooting using superSU
I tried this command not sure if correct:
adb install <PATH of SuperSU.apk>
"com.noshufou.android.su.apk"
I got success and not sure what to do next.
9- Recovery img:
fastboot flash recovery < RECVERY IMG>
I used this
cm-13.0-20160901-NIGHTLY-d851-recovery.img
Result:
sending 'recovery' (11648 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.373s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote:
partition 'recovery' not support flash)
finished. total time: 0.392s
10- MirrorGO software.
11- Google Android Manager , apparently no internet so no luck too.
12- <I didn't try this> Installing a ROM
not really sure if that will work or screw everything, any ideas and how to install ?
is it ?
adb install <PATH of ROM.zip>
NOTE: I know the phone is dirt cheap , but I have to unlock it whatever the hell I do.
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Hi and welcome to XDA.
I couldn't find much information about your device here, nothing helpful at all in fact: http://forum.xda-developers.com/sitesearch.php?q=G-Tide E66
Try posting your query in:
Android Q&A,Help and Troubleshooting.
You'll have to create an account to post in the main forums.
Good luck